There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, — demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice, — comes graceful and beloved as a bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Address] Reference

Never have I felt the quietness, the immovableness, and the permanent rest that I do now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Father Hecker] Reference

That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — First Series] Reference

We can have in our inmost hearts steadfastness, immovableness, even though the surface may be ruffled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference

"I know better," retorts the critic, settling himself in his seat, with sullen but self-complacent immovableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")] Reference

A gentle, easy movement, as regular as that by which a vessel plunges beneath the waves, had succeeded to the immovableness of the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in the Iron Mask] Reference

Niagara in its wildest plunge, and were with a word to freeze all its descending waters and stiffen them into immovableness in fetters of eternal ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

Ah! if you could have witnessed her dignity, her wisdom, her grace, her compassionate immovableness, you'd never think of her as the little Harper girl again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

The immovableness of these abstractions from within will further incline us to consider the meta physical contradiction of necessity and free will in the only rational way; that is, ` historically. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.] Reference

Nor is it likely she would have now given in, for immovableness was one of the most marked of her characteristics, had she not been so broken by mental suffering, that she did not care much about anything, least of all about herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

There should be some kind of correspondence between the firmness with which we grasp, the tenacity with which we hold, the assurance with which we believe, these great truths, and the rock-like firmness and immovableness of the evidence upon which they rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority—demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice—comes graceful and beloved as a bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Essays. An Address. Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838] Reference

There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, -- demanding not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice, -- comes graceful and beloved as a bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference

There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, -- men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority -- demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice -- comes graceful and beloved as a bride!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearls of Thought] Reference

That resemblance to an immense wave taking the precipice at one bound, bearing trees on its breast, fringed with the bushes, and winding out the long ivy sprays, which exhibit in their delicate tracery the form of the rigid glassy billow; that mere semblance of movement amidst the stillness and immovableness of death, and the presence of those two speechless creatures pursuing their ghastly work with automatic precision, added to the terror with which I already trembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference